Reading 8 Vocab List 9 Flashcards
Ambitious
Having strong desire for success or achievement/ requiring full use of ones abilities or recourses
Acerbic
Corrosive in tone/ sour or bitter in taste
Archeologist
An anthropologist that study prehistoric people and their culture
Belabor
Attack verbally with h arch criticism/ to work at or to extreme lengths/ beat soundly
Captivate
Fascinate/ attract/ cause to be enamored
Concise
Expressing much in few words
Corrosive
A substance especially a strong acid/ capable of eating or destroying through chemical action/ having the tendency to cause corrosion
Defile
A narrow pass between mountains/ a suspicious or doubted place/ spot, stain, or pollute/ to make dirty or spotty if exposed to air/ also used metaphorically
Digression
Wandering from the main path of a journey/ a message that departs from the main subject/ turning your attention or concern aside
Diversity
Condition or result of being changed/ noticeable heterogeneity
Empathy
Understanding and entering into another’s feelings
Evoke
Call to mind/ summon into action or bring into existence often by magic/ deduce or construe/ to bring out emotions
Fanciful
Indulging or influenced by fancy/ having curiously intricate quality/ not based on fact/ dubious
Fragile
Vulnerably delicate/ easily broken/ lacking solidity or strength
Hostile
Unfriendly/ characterized by Emily or ill will/ not of both his side or his opponents side/ unfavorable of life and growth
Inattention
Absentminded/ lack of attention
Inherent
In the nature of something thought not readily apparent/ existing as an essential characteristic/ existing in someone as a permanent quality
Invective
Abusive or venomous language used to express blame, censure, or bitter deep-seated ill will
Lethargy
In state of inactivity/ comatose/ weak
Modest
Free from ostentation or pretension/ not large but sufficient/ to be humble of ones self/ marked by simplicity/ free from pomp or affection
Mystique
An aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing
Nourishing
Beneficial/ encouraging/ providing nourishment
Omen
A sign of something about to happen/ indicate by signs
Outlandish
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Parsimony
Extreme care in spending money/ extreme stinginess
Perfidious
Tending to betray/ having treacherous character
Pessimistic
Expecting the worst of the worst
Poignant
Emotionally touching, keenly distressing to the mind or feelings, arousing
Prefatory
Serving as an intro or preface
Profound
Situated at or extending to great depth/ too deep to have been sounded or plumbed/ coming from deep within one/ of great intensity or completion
Prosperity
Prospering, having good fortune, gaining wealth and economy
Reconcile
Bring into account or concern, accept as inevitable, make compatible width, come to terms
Remonstrance
Expressing earnest opposition or protest
Resolute
Firm in purpose or belief, determined, quick, firm
Rife
Excessively abundant, encountered generally especially at the present time
Scope
A place where something acts as the central source of power or control , electronic equipment that shows a variety of electrical quantities, a magnifier of distant objects
Sonorous
Full, loud, deep sound
Suffrage
Legal right guaranteed by the 15 amendment to the U.S. constitution, guaranteed to women by the 19 amendment
Taciturn
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Tractable
Easily managed, readily reacting
Tyrannical
Definite rule, unjust use of power
Vitriolic
Especially strong acid
Wistful
Showing pensive sadness
